§ 17.52.010. Application for certificate or conditional certificate.

Any person owning real property, or a vendee of that person pursuant to a contract of sale, may file an application for issuance of a certificate or a conditional certificate. The application shall be filed with the advisory agency and shall include all of the following:

A.

A map which is legibly drawn in ink to an engineer's scale, with the scale shown on the map. The map shall show the property with dimensions, the gross and net area, and the location, width and names of all streets and roads adjacent to and providing access to the property. The map shall also show the location and use of all improvements and structures on the property, the distances from the structures to the parcel boundaries, the distances between structures, and all existing utilities and easements. An appropriate legend identifying all improvements and the current assessor's parcel number shall be included;

B.

The name, address, telephone number and signature of the applicant, the current owner of the property if the owner is not the applicant, and the name, address and telephone number of the person preparing the map if different from the owner or applicant;

C.

A legible copy of the current owner's deed and, if the applicant is a vendee, a copy of the contract of sale;

D.

The date of creation of the parcel or contiguous parcels for which the certificate or conditional certificate is sought and the date the applicant obtained interest in the property containing such parcel or parcels;

E.

A map and copies of the deeds of all other property owned by the applicant contiguous to the property for which the application has been filed;

F.

Documentation of any recorded access to each parcel for which the certificate or conditional certificate is sought, either in the form of a final or parcel map, deed, or quiet title judgment unless each such parcel has unrestricted frontage on a public street or highway;

G.

A legal description of each parcel for which the certificate or conditional certificate is sought, typed on plain white paper, eight and one-half by eleven inches in size, with one-inch margins at the top, sides and bottom. This legal description shall be reproducible so as to yield a legible copy that can be used as a part of a recorded certificate or conditional certificate;

H.

A narrative explaining why each parcel sought to be recognized in the certificate or conditional certificate should be treated as a legal lot, including whether creation of the lot complied with or was in violation of the Subdivision Map Act, any predecessor statutes, or any ordinance of the county enacted pursuant thereto, and whether the applicant, or current owner if different, has owned the property since the date of creation of the lot. The narrative shall be accompanied by a chain of title from the creation of the parent parcel to the present, including legible copies of all deeds or other recorded legal documents in the chain of title with simple plats of description keyed to the chain of title;

I.

The names and addresses of all owners of real property as shown on the latest equalized assessment roll within one thousand feet of the property for which the conditional certificate is sought. In lieu of utilizing the assessment roll, the records of the county assessor or tax collector may be utilized to the extent such records contain more recent information;

J.

The fee adopted by resolution of the board for processing a certificate or conditional certificate; and

K.

One copy of a preliminary title report, not more than sixty days old, that describes the nature and ownership of all current fee title interests, liens, easements and other encumbrances of record affecting each of the parcels involved in the application.

(Ord. No. 1401, § 7, 5-12-2015)